Editing

      During the editing process, we tried to make many improvements to our commercial that we could only make digitally. Adding sound to a shot can drastically change the mood of the scene for the better depending on what music you use. For our scene specifically, we wanted to use school appropriate music that still gets our point across to the audience. From the footage that we dumped onto the computer, we went through our choices and decided which ones go best with each other and which ones needed to be deleted. All of our videos were in the folder DCIM. Pinnacle studios was giving us problems on the computer we used and this made editing difficult. Usually the application is easy to access and should be located on the desktop of the device. Since we were unable to make any actual changes to our commercial we just made visual notes and ideas for the future when we revise our project. We transferred our footage, and then we used our google drive to store our videos to improvise after the pinnacle studios was slow and not working. Today we spent plenty of time looking for other computer applications to use that have the tools we need for the film.
      While our videos were importing into the file we thought about different techniques to incorporate in our film because the computer was running really slow and we wanted to use our time wisely. Adding text can also be useful when editing if you want the audience to have a deeper understanding of the scene. Pinnacle studios not working was very frustrating, because in a way it makes us behind on our schedule and we have to improvise to fix our commercial.Our phones were very useful during class today because we used them to use the application iMovie while the computers were taken. This helped us edit some since Pinnacle studios and the app are similar to each other. If Pinnacle Studios worked correctly we could’ve finished the editing process of our film already most likely, but due to technical difficulties this was not accomplished. We still had a productive day filming our final shots to fill the rest of our commercial and then retrieving all of them  to see which scenes need to be edited. My group mates an I made an outline of what we are planning to do to ensure that when we actually start to finish up with editing we will have no delay and we will know what to do. Editing is important, because many commercial would be plain without it and the process adds extra to each scene that you film. Pinnacle studios wasn’t working for many other groups as well and we observed how they were editing for some ideas.
      Even though today didn’t go as planned, we still utilized our time to look over our commercial and piecing it together. We were not able to add sounds or any text to our film due to Pinnacle Studios not loading which was frustrating. However, class was useful to double check that the shots we filmed were what we were trying to capture. As well as thinking of ideas to use and what to insert into our commercial. For a few of the scenes we filmed we took multiple takes because we wanted to make sure that we correctly shot what we wanted to show the audience. The computers not working did not stop us from going further in completing our project and we stayed on task throughout the day. For the start of class we took up a few minutes filming so we didn’t have as long for the editing process. After finding out the application did not work we quickly worked to catch up on what we are supposed to be doing for the period. Next class we will continue to edit our commercial and add finishing touches so that the final product has no flaws. This completes the process for today and I look forward to finishing our film on google docs or Pinnacle Studios.